my mixed reef

this is my thrid marine tank and it is 350 ltrs

tank specs
The dimensions are 121 x 51 x 62 cm.
lighting is 2 54w t5's and 4 aquarays one blue one white and 2 white and blue
skimmer is a deltec mce 600 and flow is 2 koralia 4 but going to be changing soon to a koralia
filter is a ehiem pro 2 external filter with tmc vecton 15 uv in line
there is bout 37 kg of live rock and 16 kg of sand

use the external filter just for rowaphos and carbon and it is running with 100ml of bio pearls in at the min unlit i can get my hands on a reactor.


corals
mushrooms zoas star poylps toadstool devil finger coral frogsprawn torch acan blue clover poylps black sun coral yellow sun coral feather dusters candy kane

inverts
hermit crabs turbo snails nassarius snails sand sifting starfish 2 sexy shrimps 2 cleaner shrimp 1 purple claw pistol shrimp 1 pom pom crab

fish
2 clownfish 2 peacock wrasse 2 firefish 1 hi-fin goby 1 royal gramma 1 midas blenny 1 twinspotted hogfish 1 yellow headed jawfish 1 yellow tang 1 sailfin tang.

 

Nice!

 

Nice sailfin!

 

Cool Jawfish!!!

 

thanks guys the marks on sailfin on great he is one of the most colourful sailfin i have seen. the jawfish is cool just makes one hell of mess digging all the time

 

Very cool - love the rock work

 

added a korilia 5 2day plus more some corals added got my 2 k4's on the rightside of the tank and the k5 on left just hope thats helps with the cyno. also moved the cat on to the sandbed move some button poylps up the make room for the cat cuz i know how big they can get tbh the cat seem to like it more and has opened up really well.

 

I love the rock work, real eye catching. I see some cyano on the substrate, that should be addressed ASAP. I think you have a 65-75 gal. tank? That is quite a load of fish. Make sure you have adequate filtration for that many. How old is this set up?

 

tank works out at 101 us gal. added more flow to help with the cyno. tank has bin running for 5 months live is all from a mature system 15 kg was from my old system and the rest is from a tank break down and water was from a mature system

 

Contrary to the belief of some, flow has very little little to do with cyano bacteria. I have seen gross cyano patches in direct heavy flow and it almost seemed to relish it (probably the added oxygen). You need to reduce the nutrient load in the tank. I pointed out the need for good filtration with the amount of fish you have. Cut back on the amount and frequency of feeding for a few weeks and you should see a great improvement.

Here is a good read;
Cyano, Cyanos, Cyanobacteria, Blue-Green Algae, Algae, Red slime Algae, Slime Algae, Slime, Undesirable algae